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30 results for “命”
命大
Mandarin: ming4 da4
lucky
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天命
Mandarin: tian1 ming4
"Mandate of Heaven"; destiny, fate; one's life span
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催命
Mandarin: cui1 ming4
to persistently press or urge someone
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曬命
Mandarin: shai4 ming4
Simplified: 晒命
Cantonese
showing off
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拼命
Mandarin: pin1 ming4
to risk one's life; be prepared to do something life-risking; death-defying [Syn.] 搏命
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命題
Mandarin: ming4 ti2
[1] [maths] [logic] proposition; statement; thesis [2] to assign a topic; to set a question
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命醜
Mandarin: ming4 chou3
Simplified: 命丑
Bad fate
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聽命
Mandarin: ting1 ming4
to follow orders
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吊命
Mandarin: diao4 ming4
when one's life is hanging on a thread, relying on something like medicine to extend one's life; to be on the verge of just being able to survive with the help of something (such as money or medicine)
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認命
Mandarin: ren4 ming4
[adj] resigned; [v] to accept, to be resigned to one's fate
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命案
Mandarin: ming4 an4
a homicide case; a homicide
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命水
Mandarin: ming4 shui3
destiny; fate
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命運
Mandarin: ming4 yun4
destiny, fate | [粵]: 命, 命水
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革命
Mandarin: ge2 ming4
revolution; revolutionary
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請命
Mandarin: qing3 ming4
Simplified: 请命
To plead on somebody's behalf
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命硬
Mandarin: ming4 ying4
to be able to survive through the roughs and the toughs; someone who is hard to kill [colloquial]
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命中
Mandarin: ming4 zhong4
hit the target (or mark); score a hit
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喪命
Mandarin: sang4 ming4
lose one's life; die
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晒命
Cantonese
swank, to show off, to boast [Var.] 曬命
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成命
Mandarin: cheng2 ming4
an issued order; an issued command; a decision already made
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授命
Mandarin: shou4 ming4
[1] to give orders [2] [書] to offer one's life
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奪命
Mandarin: duo2 ming4
often used in names of movies like 奪命佳人；奪命槍火 etc.
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算命
Mandarin: suan4 ming4
fortune-telling
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奉命
Mandarin: feng4 ming4
follow orders
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任命
Mandarin: ren4 ming4
to nominate and appoint
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奔命
Mandarin: ben1 ming4
[1] [書] to rush about; be kept busy [2] be in a desperate hurry
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爛命
Mandarin: lan4 ming4
Simplified: 烂命
furious; reckless; desperate
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抵命
Mandarin: di3 ming4
to pay with one's life
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命途
Mandarin: ming4 tu2
one's fate in life
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候命
Mandarin: hou4 ming4
Stand by; On-call
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